Computational models of narrative and analogical reasoning. Computational modeling of culture and its effects on cognition. In general, computational modelling of and application of artificial intelligence to the social sciences, especially the study of culture.
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Finlayson, M.A. The Story Workbench: An Extensible Semi-Automatic Text Annotation Tool, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Stanford, CA.
pp. 21-24. | pdf (606 kb) |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. Corpus Annotation in Service of Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Stanford, CA.
pp. 17-20. | pdf (597 kb) |
| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. and Kulkarni, N. Detecting Multi-Word Expressions Improves Word Sense Disambiguation, Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, Portland, OR.
pp. 20-24. | pdf (112 kb) | web | code |
| 2011 |
Kulkarni, N. and Finlayson, M.A. jMWE: A Java Toolkit for Detecting Multi-Word Expressions, Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, Portland, OR.
pp. 122-124. | pdf (93 kb) | web | code |
| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A. Learning Narrative Morphologies from Annotated Folktales, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automated Motif Discovery in Cultural Heritage and Scientific Communication Texts (AMICUS) Workshop, Vienna, Austria.
pp. 99-102. | pdf (876 kb) | poster (543 kb) | web |
| 2010 |
Hervás, R. and Finlayson, M.A. The Prevalence of Descriptive Referring Expressions in News and Narrative, in Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 49-54. | pdf (89 kb) | poster (1.9 mb) | web
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| 2009 |
Finlayson, M.A. Deriving Narrative Morphologies via Analogical Story Merging, in New Frontiers in Analogy Research (Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Analogy), edited by Boicho Kokinov, Keith Holyoak, and Dedre Gentner, New Bulgarian University Press, Sofia, pp. 127-136. | pdf (154 kb)
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| 2008 |
Finlayson, M.A. Collecting Semantics in the Wild: The Story Workbench, in Naturally Inspired Artificial Intelligence (Technical Report FS-08-06, Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium), edited by Jacob Beal, Paul Bello, Nick Cassimatis, Michael Coen, and Patrick Winston, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, pp. 46-53. | pdf (199 kb)
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| 2005 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Intermediate Features and Informational-level Constraint on Analogical Retrieval, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 666-671. | pdf (329 kb)| poster pdf (264 kb)
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| 2000 |
Hastings, J.T., Zhang, F., Finlayson, M.A., Goodberlet, J.G., & Smith, H.I. Two-dimensional spatial-phase-locked electron-beam lithography via sparse sampling. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 18 (6): 3268-3271. | pdf (294 kb)
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. Learning Narrative Structure from Annotated Folktales, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. | pdf (2.5 mb)
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. Reports of the AAAI 2010 Fall Symposia: Computational Models of Narrative. AI Magazine 32(1): 96-97.| pdf (373 kb) | web
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| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A., Gervás, P., Mueller, E., Narayanan, S., & Winston, P.H., Preface: Computational Models of Narrative. in Computational Models of Narrative (Technical Report FS-10-04, Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium), edited by Mark Finlayson, Pablo Gervás, Erik Mueller, Srini Narayanan, and Patrick Winston, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, pp. vii-viii. | pdf (46 kb) | web
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| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A., Richards W., & Winston, P.H., Computational Models of Narrative: Review of a Workshop. AI Magazine 31(2): 97-100. | pdf (1.1 mb) | web
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| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Hervás, R., Annotation Guide for the UCM/MIT Indications, Referring Expressions, and Co-Reference Corpus (UMIREC corpus). MIT CSAIL Technical Report No. 2010-025. | pdf (135 kb) | web
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| 2009 |
Richards, W., Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Advancing Computational Models of Narrative. MIT CSAIL Technical Report No. 2009-063 | pdf (573 kb) | web
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| 2006 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., Analogical Retrieval via Intermediate Features: The Goldilocks Hypothesis. MIT CSAIL Technical Report No. 2006-071 | pdf (840 kb) | web
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| 2005 |
Finlayson, M.A. Development of a Scintillating Reference Grid for Spatial-Phase-Locked Electron-Beam Lithography, Master's Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. | pdf (497 kb)
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| 2012 |
Finlayson, M.A., Gervás, P., Yuret, D., Bex, F., 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey in May 2012.
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| 2010 |
Finlayson, M.A., Gervás, P., Mueller, E.T., Narayanan, S., & Winston, P.H., Symposium on Computational Models of Narrative, held in Washington DC, November 11-13, 2010 as part of the AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium Series | web. See the AI Magazine Report on the symposium.
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| 2009 |
Richards, W., Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H., MIT Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, held at the Wylie Conference Center in Beverley, Massachusetts, held October 8-10, 2009. See the CSAIL technical report on the workshop.
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. Learning Legal Principles to Enable Law at Cyber Speeds, Workshop on People, Power, and CyberPolitics, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. and Winston, P.H. Narrative is a Key Cognitive Competency, Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Arlington, Virginia.
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. and Winston, P.H. Narrative Understanding at MIT CSAIL, DARPA Narrative Networks (N2) Workshop, Arlington, Virginia.
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. and Winston, P.H. Story Understanding via Learning and Exploiting Plot Patterns, DARPA Narrative Networks (N2) Workshop: The Neurobiology of Narrative, San Francisco, California. | poster (1.2 mb)
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A. and Winston, P.H. Story Understanding via Learning and Exploiting Plot Patterns, DARPA STORyNET Workshop, Chantilly, Virginia. | poster (1.2 mb)
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| 2011 |
Cox, M. Finlayson, M.A. and Winston, P.H. Narrative and Cultural Communication, OSD Human Social Culture and Behavior Focus 2011 Conference, Chantilly, Virginia.
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| 2008 |
Kraemer, J., Finlayson, M.A. Ichinco, D. & Gibson, Advances in discourse: Theory and annotation, in the Processing Text-technological Resources Conference | pdf (43 kb) | web
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| 2007 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. The Rapid Story Annotation Workbench, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2007 | pdf (232 kb) | web
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| 2007 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Reasoning by Imagining: The Neo-Bridge System, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2007 | pdf (221 kb) | web
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| 2006 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Proposal for a Computational Model of Story Understanding, presented at the MURI workshop on Computational Models for Belief Revision, Group Decision, and Cultural Shifts, 27-28 January 2006. | pdf (320 kb)
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| 2005 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Intermediate Features Improve Incremental Analogical Mapping, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 2477. | pdf (123 kb) | poster (160 kb)
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| 2005 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Computational Principles of Human Analogical Reasoning, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2005 | pdf (73 kb) | web
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| 2004 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. A Model of Analogical Retrieval using Intermediate Features, in Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Kenneth Forbus, Dedre Genter, and Terry Reiger, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 1557. | pdf (72 kb) | poster (362 kb)
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| 2004 |
Winston, P.H. & Finlayson, M.A. Computational Politics, in the MIT CSAIL Research Abstracts for 2004, pp. 783-784. | pdf (101 kb)
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| 2011 |
(Invited) "Learning Plot Patterns" at the DARPA STORyNET Workshop, Charlottesville, Virginia, 28 February 2011.
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| 2010 |
"Deriving Narrative Morphologies via Analogical Story Merging" at the Facultad Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 28 June 2010.
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| 2009 |
"Deriving Narrative Morphologies via Analogical Story Merging" at the Second International Conference on Analogy, Sofia, Bulgaria, 25 July 2009.
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| 2009 |
"Story Basis Sets and Intermediate Features" at the DARPA Workshop on EN-Mem Systems, Washington DC, 7 February 2007.
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| 2008 |
"Collecting Semantics in the Wild: The Story Workbench" at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Naturally Inspired Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, 8 November 2008.
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| 2007 |
(Invited) "The Difficulties and Uses of Text Annotation, Medical and Otherwise" at the Brigham & Women's Hospital Decision Systems Seminar, Boston, MA, 7 February 2007.
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| 2006 |
(Invited) "Analogy: What's Missing" at the MIT DARPA BICA Retreat on the Computational Human Intelligence Project, Dedham, MA, 19 January 2006.
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| 2004 |
"Analogical Retrieval via Intermediate Features" at the MIT CSAIL Student Seminar, Cambridge, MA, 10 May 2004.
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| 2009 |
Domeshek, E.A., Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Defining and Demonstrating Capabilities for Experience-Based Narrative Memory, Proposal in response to DARPA BAA-08-34. Funded, 13 months, $250,000, FA8750-10-1-0076. |
| 2003 |
Winston, P.H. & Finlayson, M.A. Representationally Complete Analogical Reasoning Systems and Steps Toward Their Application in Political Science, Proposal in response to NSF Solicitation AICS03, No. 03-600. Funded, 4 years, $446,371, IIS-0413206
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| 2011 |
Finlayson, M.A., Gibson, E. & Winston, P.H.. Computing the Cultural Lens, Proposal in response to NSF soliciation 11-502, Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI).
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| 2009 |
Finlayson, M.A., Hervás, R., Gervás, P. & Winston, P.H. Unblocking Research on Narrative using the Story Workbench, Proposal to MIT-Spain/La Cambra de Barcelona Seed Fund for 2010.
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| 2008 |
Finlayson, M.A. & Winston, P.H. Story Basis Sets and Intermediate Features: Foundations for Schema Building and Culturally-Grounded Interpretation, White Paper in response to RFI DARPA-SN-09-08 (accepted)
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| 2006 |
Finlayson, M.A. A Computational Model of Cultural Memory Effects, Revised Doctoral Thesis Proposal to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.
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| 2004 |
Finlayson, M.A. Analogical Reasoning using Representational Constraint and Re-representational Feedback, Doctoral Thesis Proposal to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.
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| 2004 |
Winston, P.H. & Finlayson, M.A. Explaining and Predicting Culturally Conditioned Viewpoints with Analogical Reasoning Systems, Proposal in response to NSF Solicitation HSD04, No. 04-537.
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| 2010-2011 |
Benjamin Frank, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: A Review of Story Corpora
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| 2009-2011 |
Nidhi Kulkarni, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: jMWE: A Java Library for Collocation Detection
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Summer 2010
Fall 2008 |
Brett van Zuiden, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Projects: Pipelining the Genesis System and the Story Workbench, and jWSD: A Java Library for Word-Sense Disambiguation
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| 2008-2009 |
Sebastien Dabdoub, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Projects: Collecting Phrase-Structure Parses from Novice Users with the Story Workbench and Distributing Computation over the CSAIL Condor Cluster
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| Spring 2009 |
Kevin Hwang, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Cultural Biases in Human Moral Recall
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2008
Spring 2005 |
Emilie Kim, Masters of Engineering, Thesis: Investigation of Cultural Biases in Human Moral Recall: A Computationally Grounded Study | pdf (949 kb), Undergraduate Research Assistant, Undergraduate Thesis (UAP): Grounded Models for Understanding Conflicts from Multiple Points of View| pdf (545 kb)
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| Summer 2008 |
Drew Shapiro, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Visualizing Discourse in the Story Workbench
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| Summer 2008 |
Tejasvi Vishwanadha, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Detecting Collocations in the Story Workbench
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| 2007-2008 |
Owen Lin, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Algorithms for Event Extraction
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| 2006-2007 |
Diana Moore, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Undergraduate Thesis (UAP): Testing the Story Workbench: A Faster and more Accurate Tool for Word Sense Disambiguation | pdf (945 kb), UROP Project: Detecting Violations of Spelke Principles in Imagined Scenes
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| 2006-2007 |
Mark Seifter, Masters of Engineering, Thesis: Building Representations from Natural Language | pdf (537 kb), Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Application of Modern Natural Language Parsing Techniques to the Bridge Project
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| 2006-2007 |
Harold Cooper, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: Motion Representation in the Bridge Project
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| Spring 2004 |
Yaron Binur, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UROP Project: A GUI for Browsing Bridge Memory
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| Summer 2002 |
Maithilee Kunda, Research Science Institute High-School Research Assistant, Research Project Title: Quenching of Organic Scintillators in Polymer Thin Films for Spatial-Phase-Locked Electron-Beam Lithography
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| July 2010 |
Three day short course "Extending the Story Workbench", given to the NIL Group at the Facultad Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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| Spring 2006 |
Graduate Instructor, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Rahul Sarpeskar.
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| Fall 2004 |
Head Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns.
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| Spring 2004 |
Head Teaching Assistant, 6.050 Information and Entropy, with Professors Paul Penfield and John Wyatt.
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| Fall 2003 |
Head Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns.
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| Spring 2003 |
Head Teaching Assistant, 6.050 Information and Entropy, with Professors Paul Penfield and Seth Lloyd.
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| Fall 2002 |
Teaching Assistant, 6.121 Bioelectronics Projects Laboratory, with Professor Steven Burns.
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| 2008-2009 |
Consultant, MyRoar, Inc., Boston, MA.
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| 2007-2008 |
Consultant, EventMonitor, Inc., Boston, MA.
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| Summer 2003 |
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, MIT, under Professor Roger Petersen.
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| 2001-2002 |
Senior Engineer, Nantero, Inc., Woburn, MA.
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| Summer 1999 |
Graduate Research Assistant, Submicrometer Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, under Theodore Bloomstein, Ph.D. and Mordechai Rothschild, Ph.D.
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| Summer 1998 |
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Nanostructures Laboratory, MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, under Professor Henry I. Smith.
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| Summer 1997 |
Undergraduate Research Assistant, High-field Science Group, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, under Associate Professor Donald Umstadter.
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| Summer 1996 |
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Applied Physics, University of Michigan, under Professor Roy Clarke.
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